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Chung Chung Kao committed a terrible crime years ago in Orange County and now he says he's ready to return to freedom.
In Dec. 1992, Kao shot Chung Long Lu, an Orange Coast Community College student, in the head in a Costa Mesa shopping center par...

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What in blazes is going on with the UC Irvine basketball team?
They took UCLA--yes, that UCLA, as in Bruins, Pauley Pavilion and John Wooden's Pyramid of Success--to the brink before losing 80-79 in overtime, the three-win team's only loss so far th...

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The Child Evangelism Fellowship, which filed the federal lawsuit in Los Angeles, is not seeking monetary damages, only the right to assemble for free at Beatty Elementary School.
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But the family left town, crossing the county line for a new place to call home, nearby Corona. Can anyone guess what drove them out? Here's a hint: the OC Human Relations Commission knows the answer.
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If I told you that Dennis Avner passed this November, it wouldn't mean much. But if I pulled up a photo of the character he was better known as, your interest would surge immediately. Avner lived a great part of his life as Stalking Cat, an identity ...

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Amy Sedaris' brother was introduced to a packed Memorial Hall by "fellow 36 short" Jim Doti, who may not have a string of
bestsellers and 450-year-old home in England like the author does, but the
pixie-sized Chapman president can brag his name wil...

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Nearly three weeks after he made a shocking election eve robocall to support Democrat Larry Agran's mayoral campaign in Irvine, District Attorney Tony Rackauckas apologized to his fellow Orange County Republicans at a Nov. 19 GOP central committee me...

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The threat level in the bitter, intense Costa Mesa war between Republican councilman Jim Righeimer and the city's public employee union finally might be downgraded from severe to guarded, according to an article posted late this afternoon.
Mike Re...

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See the update at the end of this post on his body being found in the San Bernardino County desert.
ORIGINAL POST, NOV. 14, 5:07 P.M.: Todd Hansen moved to Orange from the San Diego area about a year ago, grew a goatee since the picture at...

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In both cases near Cerritos Avenue and Bayless Street, the man told the girls he dropped something in his car and wondered if they would fetch it. Fortunately, both declined.
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City Employee Commits Suicide, Jumping Off Costa Mesa City Hall
Suicide Club: Ethically questionable documentary spends a year on the Golden Gate
But the jumper did not die, going to Western Medical Cen...

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After a three-day trial before U.S. District
Judge Philip S. Gutierrez, 47-year-old Denise Browning was convicted on two counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false
payroll tax returns.
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Because we all know teenagers never do unsavory acts behind their parent's backs or try to blame adults for their own sneaky misdeeds, Laguna Beach government officials are imposing a new anti-teen drinking ordinance designed to criminally punish par...

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After all, shortly after the single, unemployed mother of 14 checked into Chapman House, she was off to Tennessee to appear in a parody music video for $1,500, providing there is a price for one's dignity.
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See Update No. 3 at the end of this post on the charges and maximum punishment facing the ex-boyfriend of the deceased.
See Update Nos. 1-2 on police seeking the deceased woman's ex-boyfriend as a "person of interest" in the case and then arresting...

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that included beating up a dancer he met at an Anaheim strip club, was sentenced Friday to 21 years and eight months in state prison.
The Stanton 26-year-old's path to the joint began shortly after midnight Nov. 11, 2010, as a stripper finished givi...

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When Kevin W. Vann was introduced earlier this year as the new bishop of the Diocese of Orange, replacing the much-loathed Tod D. Brown, the bishop tried to immediately show he was down with the people (and especially with raza) by showing off his co...

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We published it on November 1, to a lot of nice comments. Then, last Wednesday, Mormons finally found out about the cover and have been whining to the Weekly ever since, demanding an apology.
Starting on Wednesday and continuing ever since, Mormo...

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Yesterday, Orange County Register subscribers opened up their newspaper and saw something unfamiliar: a black man. Kidding!
(No, not really, given the county's embarrassingly low African-American community.)
Actually, who they saw was Bill Johnson...

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Dana Rohrabacher, Orange County's senior career politician, hit the national media circuit last week and in typical angry fashion laid out another of his kooky conspiracy theories against President Barack Obama.
During a Nov. 15 appearance on Fox...